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On Thu, 15 May 2003 jamtat AT mailsnare.net wrote:

My tech expert suggests changing the battery.  But on his old XTs that had
no clocks, where he wanted to be sure the files did not all get labelled
the same date, he set up a file to retain the last date, and when the
computer booted it would make that the current date and he was asked
whether to correct it.  He set it up to assume he was turning on the
computer every day (add one).

Your solution is much more impressive.

Sorry to report that my bbs members have no idea why you cannot telnet
except someone mentioned something about problems with the telnet daemon.

I suppose it is also cheating to buy a battery instead of making your own.

> The ethical Linux observer will note that I cheated, and I shamefacedly
> won't dispute the point.  I know I should probably have learned how to
> program in Perl or perhaps built my own atomic clock out of spare
> computer parts before undertaking this task . . . but I didn't.  As a
> means of atonement though, I would like to ask the ethical Linux user:
> "how would you have handled this?" - hoping to someday be capable of
> emulating at least his lofty moral character, if not his technical
> prowess.  Any on list who would care to answer for him/her are asked
> please to do so.
> 
> James
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